Human Development Index (HDI) is an index aiming to measure human development by taking into account a long and healthy life, access to knowledge and a decent standard of living. The 2013 Human Development Report presents HDI values and ranks, the Inequality-adjusted HDI the Gender Inequality...

A probabilistic multidimensional scaling model that estimates both location and variance parameters for proximity and preference data is described and compared to a deterministic scaling model. Simulated and empirical choice data are used to compare models. Variance estimates from the...

This paper describes Choice Map, a model that infers a product-market map from panel data. Choice Map is a stochastic brand choice model, a random utility quantal choice model, and a multidimensional scaling procedure. Choice Map combines the parsimony of stochastic choice models, the rationale...

Over the last decade, numerous methods for the multidimensional scaling (MDS) of perceptions and preferences have been applied by researchers in marketing. However, one notable gap in MDS methodology has been the lack of suitable models for analyzing inherently asymmetric data relationships....

This paper presents a new multidimensional scaling (MDS) methodology which operationalizes the Krumhansl (1978) distance-density model for the analysis of asymmetric proximity data. In Krumhansl's conceptualization, the symmetric Euclidean interbrand distances typically associated with the...

This paper discusses the formal analysis of the underlying distance-based representations of consumer similarity judgments. Four models common in the marketing and psychological literature are examined—Euclidean and city-block spaces and ultrametric and additive trees. The analysis uses the...

The concept of development is not only referred to the level or to the growth rate of GDP of a country, but it concerns different aspects of individual and social life. Development leads to a changing of values, culture, behaviours and attitudes of people interested in it. That is to say that...

The paper identifies the main problems, which are encountered in the statistical analysis of the patterns of decision-making of the EU Council. Compared to most legislative bodies in democratic political systems, in the EU Council decision-making we only see a scarce occurrence of contested...

This paper offers the conceptual apparatus of socio-demographic safety of municipal level territory with the developed qualifier of threats. The complex technique of diagnostics of socio-demographic safety of municipal level territory and revealing of influence of large integrated structures on...